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San Jose, California
Downtown's main gay dance club, two floors and a rooftop patio
Splash is downtown San Jose's main gay dance club, spread across two levels with a rooftop smoking patio and a wall of video screens over the floor. The programming runs a different theme most nights — drag shows, go-go dancers, Tuesday karaoke, and Latin nights among them — and it's widely regarded as Silicon Valley's primary LGBTQ+ nightclub now that the South Bay scene has narrowed to a handful of rooms. Come for a full night out rather than a quiet drink; the energy builds late and the crowd skews toward dancing. It sits on Post Street steps from Mac's Club, so the two anchor a compact downtown gay strip you can walk between.
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